Location:

The Setup:

This is a panorama of a really narrow alley and building site in Fortitude Valley.

This is stitched from 15 images, and there are some stitching errors because of the tight confines and really wide-angle shots. Hugin found about 2900 control points and I added a few hundred more manually.

The camera & lens:

Post processing:

Resized images to 3000px as Hugin couldn't handle the full 5000px images (even with 16gb of ram, even with just two images, suggesting it's a per-image limitation).

For the bottom right image, exposure +2 stops to bring out the detail of the mess underneath.

Hugin -

Auto find control points

Add about 300 extra control points manually

Lightroom 4 -

Preset: B&W Look 5, which uses desaturation to get a B&W image, with shadow levels -15, temp +60 and tint +25. This preset changes the source image to red before converting to B&W (you can see this effect if you convert any image B&W, then mess with the temp slider).

The wash-up:

There are quite a few stitching errors just I just could not get rid of. Also, the sky is quite low-contrast. One way to fix that would be to replace it (thanks Jennie!) but I lack the skills at the moment to do such a thing.

What would you do?

You are welcome to have a go at editing this photo yourself. When editing in browser,
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your work. Go crazy!

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